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    "localId": "79975",
    "label": "Incipit Page with Illuminated Headpiece",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.583.1B"
}

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    "id": "79975",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.583.1B",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Incipit Page with Illuminated Headpiece",
    "description": "This opening page from Walters manuscript W.583 has an illuminated headpiece with polychrome floral design. There is also interlinear gilt decoration.",
    "provenance": "Leon Gruel, Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [book plate: no. 1155 LG]; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date of acquisition unknown], by purchase [from Leon Gruel]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "11th century AH/AD 17th century (Ottoman)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.583.1B",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "illuminated manuscripts",
        "folios (leaves)"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.583.1B_Fp_DD_300.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 19,
            "height": 12
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 7 1/2 x W: 4 3/4 in. (19 x 12 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Islamic",
    "dynasty": "Ottoman Dynasty",
    "med": "ink and pigments on laid European paper",
    "creator_ids": [
        "16706"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "ISL",
        "MSS",
        "MIS"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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